%0 Journal Article %T IDENTITY CRISES IN POST COLONIAL LITERATURE %A VISHNU SHELKE %J Review of Research %D 2013 %I %X Defination of literature-Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction), as well as on original imagination, such as polemical works as well as autobiography, and reflective essays as well as belles-lettres. Literature can be classified according to historical periods, genres, and political influences. The concept of genre, which earlier was limited, has broadened over the centuries. Agenre consists of artistic works which fall within a certain central theme, and examples of genre include romance, mystery, crime, fantasy, erotica, and adventure, among others. writings in prose or verse; especially : writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interes %U http://www.ror.isrj.net/UploadedData/234.pdf